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...such a bird ever get in FTC's nest? As Mason tells it, that is quite a story. The son of Illinois ex-Senator William E. Mason, he went to Washington in 1934 as a lawyer with NRA. When that job folded, he was so broke that for a time he lived on Fig Newtons. Then his good friend Billy Richardson, part owner of the Washington Senators, gave him a free box alongside the dugout at the ball park...
...frequently voted with the court's "liberal wing"-Brandeis, Cardozo and Stone. New Dealers castigated him for rejecting NRA, but all the other justices rejected it too. He voted for many New Deal measures, including the Wagner Act. His attitude was that if a social revolution was being legislated, it should be legislated in an orderly, constitutional...
Second Wave. Next day the Exchange was again swamped with buying. Records fell right & left. In Saturday's brief two-hour session, 2,590,000 shares changed hands-the biggest Saturday turnover since the feverish beginnings of NRA in 1933. As in the hectic days of 1929, single blocs of 3,000 shares and more changed hands without driving down the price (e.g., Packard Motor closed up ⅛ after one bloc of 21,000 shares was sold...
...domestic issues he voted against TVA, AAA, NRA, Securities Exchange Act. He voted for the Social Security Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the NorrIS-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act; but from 1941 he has supported every important bill designed to balance the rights and duties of labor. In 1941, he voted against extending conscription and arming merchant ships, thereafter led the Republican minority in support of all war-winning measures. He voted for Bretton Woods, the United Nations. In 22 years in Congress he has had his name on no important bill...
...nuances of procedural policy. Here lies perhaps the key portion of his career. In his years at Madison he guided the Wisconsin Executive Council through its pioneer efforts to relieve the excessive burden on the legislature by drawing upon the ability of private citizens. From its inception during the NRA until early in the war he served on the staff of the National Resources Commission. Our of his activities on the national scene Gaus has developed fast friendships with such fellow-planners as David E. Lilienthal...